Travels in Chaldæa: Including a Journey from Bussorah to Bagdad, Hillah, and Babylon, Performed on Foot in 1827. With Observations on the Sited and Remains of Babel, Seleucia, and CtesiphonH. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1829 - 320 من الصفحات |
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AHWAZ ancient antiquity appears Appendix Arabia Arabs Arrian Babel Babylon Babylonian Bagdad Basrah beautiful Belus Berosus Birs Nemroud bitumen boat breadth bricks brickwork bridge building built burnt called camel canal cement chap character composed crossed Ctesias Ctesiphon desert Diodorus Diodorus Siculus distance earth east eastern bank edifices Euphrates exhibit face feet fifty fragments furlongs gates ground half heap height Herodotus Hillah Hussein Pasha inhabitants inscriptions journey Kasr Kesra khaun king layers mass Mesopotamia miles MODERN BUSSORAH mosque mounds mountains Mujellibah natives nearly Nimrod Nineveh Note palace Persian Persian Empire plain qu'il reeds remains remarkable Rich river road RUINS OF AHWAZ Sabean says Seleucia Seleucus Nicator Selman Semiramis Sheikh side situated spot square stone Strabo stream summit Tamarix temple of Belus thick Tigris tile tion tomb tower town traced traveller vases vestiges village wall western